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Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics /

Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing, such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts, have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mizejewski, Linda (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics:
  • Funniness, prettiness, and feminism
  • kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list
  • Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina fey
  • Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs"
  • Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto
  • "White people are looking at you!" wanda Sykes's black looks
  • Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door.